Knife-scourer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE y CHARLES A. BRYANT, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

KNIFE-SCOURER.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,849, dated February 19,1884..

Application led December 20, 1883. (No model.)

To rLZZ whom, t may concern.;

Be itknown that l, CHARLES A. BRYANT, of Wakefield, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and Improved Knife-Scourer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. A

The object of my invention is to'provide a new and improved device for scouring and cleaning knives, cutlery, and other articles.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claims. y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe igures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my irnproved knife-scourer, showing Vthe manner in which it is used. Fig.- 2 isalongitudinal sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modified construction of the handle.

A hollow handle,.opcn at the top and closed at the bottom, is provided at its upper end with an apertured cap, B. In the lower end of the handle the stem C of a wire frame, D, is secured, yon the cross-pieeeof which a block,

E, of cork, rubber, or other suitable material,A

is hung or pivoted, the aperture of said block containing a sleeve, -F, surrounding the crosspiece of the frame-D. The hollow handle can vbe made tapering, if desired.

The powder for cleaning, scouring, or polishing the knife or other article is lled into the hollow handle. A quantity of this powder is sprinkled from cap B upon the knife or other article to be cleaned, scoured, or polished, and is rubbed on the said article by` asne'w and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In aknife-scourer, the combination, with the handle A, of the frame D, secured on the lower end of the same, the rubbing-block E, mounted on the cross-piece of the frame, and of the sleeve F, mounted onthe said crosspiece, substantially as hereinlshown and described. v

2. A knife-scourer consisting of the wire frame D, carrying the rubbingblock E, and provided with the tang C, formed by the upper twisted ends of the said frame, and a handle, A, substantially as set forth.

. cHAs. A. BRYANT.v

Witnesses: v

E. M. BRYANT, F. H. BRYANT. 

